interesting that the NHS are using the language of "federation" to describe their palantir platform, i think this is the only other context i've seen it in?
https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/nhs-federated-data-platform/
this is kinda an interesting read
i guess the government / nhs perspective is, we had an open transparent tendering process, we thought about patient privacy and how to mitigate companies profiting from this, this company won, end of story
i suppose there’s just inherently nothing in neoliberal democratic systems that lets you deny a contract on the basis of them being, you know, white supremacist eugenicists
there's a writeup here i'm trying to get a copy of but sounds like its not gone well anyway.